Shirley Bell has changed from a young mother into a grandmother over the course of this collection. She had two stillbirths which profoundly affect her early writing. Her father's death when she was 13, her mother's recent decline into dementia and death and her husband's struggle with stroke, a heart bypass and Parkinson's also enter the book. But alongside this, there is profound love for her husband, children and grandchildren. The...
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